Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's food supply has become only slightly more radioactive since 1945, and in most categories of comestibles there is no slightest threat to health. So reported Dr. Edwin P. Laug and Chemist Wendell C. Wallace of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration last week. Standard of comparison was a collection of old canned foods, e.g., from Admiral Byrd's caches in Antarctica (TIME, March 11, 1957). As expected, because fallout tends to concentrate on grass and thus get into browsing cows, there was some increase in radioactivity of milk and milk products. While this was so slight...
...addition to its European stars, it can rely on a fine supply of home-grown talent, enormous, well-earned prestige, and a manager with a sense of humor. Last week Manager Bing heard that one of the speakers scheduled for the anniversary program planned to invoke a comparison with Elvis Presley. He promptly sat down and scrawled a note: "I feel this name ought not to be mentioned in our House! We do not acknowledge his existence...
...long day, but when he opened his mouth, he was the master entertainer. Bing Crosby's topnotch ABC special last week swayed along with rocking-chair ease; its spare (but expensive) sets and casual tone made the usual frenetic TV variety shows look sick by comparison. With Crooner Dean Martin, Gospel Shouter Mahalia
What then makes the comparison meaningful, if the odds are so even? "There is one last general argument," he goes on, and "if I were choosing, it would be decisive ... It is simply that here we know our audience. In America the writers don't really know whom they are writing for-apart from their fellow writer-scholars." In England, "Mr. Macmillan, Mr. Butler, Mr. Gaitskell are all deeply read men, interested in contemporary work; so are a good sprinkling of other members of the House. That would also be true of a surprisingly high proportion of civil servants...
French Ceiling. At the height of auction's popularity in the midigsos, the keen card mind of famed Yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt focused on the game's essential defect in comparison with present-day bridge: overtricks in excess of the bid counted toward game, just like bid tricks, so that a partnership could make a game without bidding it. Card Buff Vanderbilt found in the French variety of auction called plafond (ceiling) an innovation that he liked: only tricks bid and made were scored toward game, over tricks counting as above-the-line bonuses...